The people who downloaded binaries recently will -- if they do not give up instantly -- go stratight to the Sage homepage for help, so there should be a clear item there explaining what to do to upgrade. With luck this will leave some of them with a good feeling, that although there was a big it was fixed instantly -- but it needs to be easy to find and obvious to know what to do.
John On 10/12/2007, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > There are a few very serious (but easy to fix) > problems with the current sage and upcoming packages > that involving hardcoding of paths. These > will cause problems if you move a sage install. > > POLYBORI: > I noticed this in a SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/: > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 was was 47 Dec 4 10:52 ipbori -> > /Users/was/s/local/share/polybori/ipbori/ipbori > > That link *must* not be hard coded. Make sure this gets fixed before > polybori is in sage. > > SINGULAR (very serious): > Several Singular-related files in SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/ have hardcoded > paths. > This makes it so singular will fail to work for everybody who > downloads a sage > binary right now :-(. > > The package singular-3-0-4-1-20071209.spkg fixes the problem. Just do > sage -upgrade to get it, or download it from > http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/singular-3-0-4-1-20071209.spkg > > BZIP2: > Some minor path hardcoding problems. Easy to fix. I've put the > file that needs > to be replaced here: > > I've attached the file to fix this here: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1444 > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > -- John Cremona --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
